London-based director Simon Cartwright talks about his darkly comic short, which uses a mixture of rod marionette puppets and animation to tell the story of Glen, a man who attends a Primal Scream therapy class:

"There are a lot of films in the world which deal with masculinity and they all seem to approach the subject in a negative way. The aim with Manoman was to make something that was a celebration of masculinity—at least on the surface. 

In that way the audience could see the attraction of it, rather than simply being repulsed. The intention was to make a film that is itself masculine in every way—unapologetically aggressive yet ultimately absurd."

MANOMAN is showing at the Sundance Film Festival in London.